If you aren't familiar with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy you will likely be very confused.

If you are familiar with the HHGG, you will also be very confused - while the game starts similarly to the book, it soon diverges.

In summary, you play the part of Arthur Dent a rather ordinary and ineffectual Earth being with a liking for tea.

The game starts when the local council makes a spirited attempt to demolish your house to make way for a bypass.

While you're trying to cope with that, your friend Ford Prefect drops past to tell you that your efforts are pointless, as the Earth itself is about to be demolished to make way for a Hyperspace bypass.

The rest is up to you!